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joeglow3

(6,228 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 02:14 PM Aug 2013

Are you a Journalist? Don't work for Buffett.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/177352/reporters-move-to-georgia-avoid-nebraska/

"Susan Johnston wrangled Bureau of Labor Statistics data about journalists’ salaries into several fascinating maps. In certain states — media centers like New York, California and the Washington, D.C., area — people who self-report their job titles as “writer/author” make more money than the national average for that job title.

But when she looked at average wages for the “reporter/correspondent” category by state, the map changed: The higher cost of living in areas like the West Coast, Johnston writes, makes Georgia quite attractive (12 percent higher wages than the national average, and a favorable cost of living). Other good states for journos: Colorado, Arizona and Alaska, though the cost of living in Alaska indexes even higher than New York’s.

Johnston also compared reporters’ wages to statewide averages for all workers. Florida reporters can really lord over their neighbors (36 percent higher), as can Rhode Islanders (25 percent higher).

Interestingly, all three of Johnston’s maps show that one of the worst states to be a reporter is Nebraska, where newspaper white knight Warren Buffett now owns 18 newspapers. Nebraska journalists make 27 percent less than the average Nebraska worker, and according to Johnston’s map, they make at least 30 percent less than the the national average of their colleagues. I’ve annotated her map as a service to geographically challenged East Coast journalists:"
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